I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impress the boss. You're gonna get that promotion; you're gonna get that raise. You're gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you're really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good at your job, it might not really matter.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

He wants to get better every day. He definitely has a high work ethic and wants to go far in this league.